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The Recent Surge of Nitazenes
Content Warning: This article discusses opioids, overdoses, and substance-related harms.
Nitazenes are a highly potent class of synthetic opioids often mixed—unknown to users—
into other drugs. They pose extreme overdose risk, can be difficult to detect on standard
tests, and may require multiple naloxone doses. With commentary from Subject Matter
Expert Arun Gupta, MD
Arun Gupta, MD
Sep 276 min read
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